Dear Families,

Firstly, how wonderful it is to be back with our wonderful students, staff and families. I did miss you all very much while I was on leave. I am sincerely grateful to Mr Perry Trattos who lead the school with enthusiasm and zest over Term 3. I know Perry was immensely proud to serve this incredible school community and will hold dear the relationships forged over his time here. I believe the school is better for his time here and thankful for the positive impact he made in such a short time. I also acknowledge our exceptional senior leadership team, teaching and non-teaching staff who progressed our school strategic plan, ensuring the wellbeing and educational progress of our children. I look forward to meeting up with you all again over the coming weeks.

For the majority of our families to know your children are expertly cared for and educated during the school day is comfort and reassurance enough. What some may not know is the professional reputation that Yeronga State School holds within the educational community. YSS for many years has been an active member of the Curiosity and Powerful Learning (CPL) coalition of schools. We engage in professional collaboration with Craigslea, Nundah, Indooroopilly, Fig Tree Pocket, Amberley and Graceville State Schools on a regular basis throughout the school year. CPL is our informing framework for school improvement, pedagogical practice and student engagement in learning. It is informed by four whole school theories of action. These are;

• prioritise high expectations and authentic relationships
• emphasise inquiry focused teaching
• adopt consistent teaching protocols
• adopt consistent learning protocols

As a coalition of schools we work together to lift the performance of each of our schools through professional collaboration, collective efficacy, regular classroom visits, collegial observation and feedback. Our collective vision is to prepare our students to be agentic learners and globally competent citizens who make a positive difference to the world. At the heart of this is curiosity! What are you curious about? What sparks in you a sense of wonder and awe! What thinking might you share with your child that builds a culture of curiosity in the home?

The school fence has now been constructed. Yet to be completed is the automation and timing of gate opening and closing times. I will communicate the changes as soon as possible. It is sad that the historical community access to the school grounds will cease outside of school hours once this has been finalised, however I know you understand that the safety of our children and staff and families whilst attending school is our priority. We will continue to do what we can to make these changes in consideration of all stakeholders Authorised access such as before and after school activities and events will continue outside of school hours of course.

Have a wonderful week,

Eunice     

Welcome back to one of the busiest terms of the year – it is filled with learning, reflection and celebration!! I hope you all had a lovely holiday and the children are ready for the fun filled term ahead.

SCHOOL EVENTS FOR THE NEXT FORTNIGHT

10/10 – Yr 3 Botanic Gardens Excursion

11/10 – Crazy Sock Day – Wellbeing Fundraiser

13/10  – GALA Day

13/10 & 14/10 – AFL Q School Cup

17/10 – Curiosity and Powerful Learning Visiting Teachers to the school

20/10 – Yr 3-6 Assembly

24/10 – 5L Hoodwinked

25/10 – 5P Hoodwinked

26/10 – 5BW Hoodwinked

27/10 – GALA Day Back up, Prep – Yr 2 Assembly, Day 4 Daniel

 PREP 2024 INFORMATION SESSION

Thank you to all the families that attended the Prep 2024 group discussions with their children who will be attending Yeronga State School next year.  It was lovely to meet the families and welcome them into the Yeronga learning community.  Please note that there is a Prep 2024 Stay and Play, tomorrow morning from 7:30 – 8am in the Prep playground.  Mrs Freeman and Mrs Quinn will be there to say hello!!

2024 CLASS ALLOCATIONS

Thank you to everyone who put forward a class allocation preference for 2024 – the opportunity to place a class allocation to Mrs Freeman has now closed.  These preferences will be taken into consideration as there are many factors that teachers take into consideration when allocating your child into a class.

 WHOLE SCHOOL SUSTAINABILITY DAY

Wednesday of Week 10, the whole school engaged in a sharing session around our Inquiry big concept for the term ‘Sustainability’.  It was lovely to see the Prep children sharing about how to care for their special places and the Year 4 children were amazed at how much knowledge the Prep children were able to share with the them.  Each class had the opportunity to share their learnings with another year level (Round 1) and then each class had the opportunity to learn from another class (Round 2).  The children were able to change the purpose of their learning to suit the year level that was coming in to learn. It was lovely to see new relationships and learning opportunities for the future occur between classes.

Student Leadership Nomination Processes 2024

In week 10 last term, students in year 5 embarked on the first step of their student leadership journey with a expert panel. As they prepare for nominations of student leadership positions this term, the students heard from staff across the school about the qualities of a good student leader. Thank you to our panellists; Mr Trattos, Mrs Freeman, Mrs Quinn, Mrs Southwell, Mrs Mitchell, Mr Petersen and Mr Landbeck!  Key qualities of a good student leader included: respect, leaving a legacy, service before self, lead by example, encouragement, using the learner assets and being kind and fair. 

Year 5 students this week met with Miss Kirk for their second student leadership orientation session, and will be nominating for formal leadership positions over the next 3 weeks.   For more information on the student leadership nomination processes, please see the student handbook (link below). 

Crazy Sock Day fundraiser

On Wednesday 11^th October, the Wellbeing Legacy Committee is hosting a Crazy Sock Day fundraiser for Mental Health Week.  All community members are encouraged to wear crazy socks to raise awareness for mental health and bring a gold coin donation to support the wellbeing Legacy Committee.

Running Club

Running club will continue until the end of the year unless the weather makes it impossible to run safely or public health restrictions return. Sessions will be held on Tuesdays, from 3:15 to 3:45 and Wednesdays from 7:45 to 8:15 with Mr Bateman. Mr Sutherland is now holding his sessions on Fridays from 7:45 to 8:15. Remember that all of these sessions will occur on the main, or years 3-6, oval.

Regional Athletics Round up

Congratulations to those who have qualified to compete at States for the Regional Team. Our successful qualifiers for the regional team are; Lachlan G, Phoenix L, Mollie W and Tom G. These people have been training to take the next step to Qld selection on the representative pathway. We wish them all the best as they compete for Qld selection next week.

Mighty Lily

Congratulations to our Lily Mc who has just returned from the State Rugby League where she played for Met West. She enjoyed the experience, played very well and was a credit to herself, her family and her school. Well done Lily!

Ball Games Round Up

What a great day it was. Full of fun, colour and fantastic inter class competition. Unfortunately some classes were more successful than others in dressing for and competing at the event. The winners of the best dressed teams competition were; Year One and Two Division: 2V Vampires, Year Three and Four Division: Mac’s Matildas and Year Five and Six Division: Wooton’s Wanted. The competition results are listed below;

Year One

1^st: 1C C Captains

2^nd: 1S Smarties

3^rd: 1LF Super Strikers

4^th: 1M Ballgame Masters

Year Two

1^st: 2/3BW Banana Waffles

2^nd: 2M M & M’s

3^rd: 2V Vampires

4^th: 2Y Ice creams

5^th: 2P Puppies

Year Three

1^st: 3C Cool Cucumbers

2^nd: 3N New Bosses

3^rd: 3M Marshmallows

4^th: 2/3BW Banana Waffles

5^th: 3D Devils

Year Four

1^st: 4L Lyons’ Legends

2^nd: 4M Mac’s Matildas

2^nd: 4/5W Wooton’s Wanted

4^th: 4O Ocelots

5^th: 4H Henry’s Hounds

Year Five

1^st: 5P Purple People

2^nd: 5L Lunatics

3^rd: 5BW Barbie World

4^th: 5K Kings and Queens

5^th: 4/5W Wooton’s Wanted

Year Six

1^st: 6HW Hawaiians

2^nd: 6K Wipeouts

3^rd: 6M Malibus

Upcoming Swimming Carnivals

As always we will need parental help staffing these carnivals. We are fortunate that the parent body has always been very generous in volunteering time. For the Senior (Years 3 – 6) Carnival we will need timers. For the Junior (Years 1 & 2) Carnival we will need marshalls / checkstarters. If you can help please email Mr Bateman; cbate12@eq.edu.au .

Football Goals

Please remember, that although these goals are metal, they are not built to be climbed upon. Please do not climb on them as you will be endangering yourself, damaging the goals and be the unhappy recipient of a white slip.

Representative Sport Dates Release (Important)

The trial dates for terms Three and Four of 2023 are listed below.

Yeronga State School (YSS) District Trial Selection Policy (Years 4 to 6)

The representative pathway for school sport is for children from 10 to 12 years of age. Yeronga is part of a very strong district which consists of 28 schools from Yeronga State School to the Calamvale area. In contact and skill team sports those aged 11 and 12 need to possess the advantages of size and speed, as well as skill on most occasions.  Selectors will choose those with the skill and the resilience to compete at a higher level. Remember that selectors give up their time for these trials meaning that it is important for us to send only those ready to compete at a higher level. Very seldom is it appropriate to send students for experience. An indicator of readiness for participation at a higher level would be being regularly among the best 3 or 4 players for your club under 12 teams.

In order to be selected to attend a District Trial children should make themselves known to me (Mr Bateman) for either a selection trial with the appropriate teacher or so that they may be given the appropriate forms. Remember that children must give at least two weeks notice that they wish to attend a district trial to allow for a school selection trial to be held in the event of a great deal of interest being shown in a particular sport.

Rebel Sport Community Givebacks

Just a quick note to publicise our involvement with this scheme and how it works. For some time now Yeronga State School has been part of the above mentioned scheme. The scheme gives the school credit for purchases of equipment at Rebel as anyone who purchases equipment and nominates Yeronga State School as the recipient of Community Kickbacks. I have purchased Footballs and Netballs with this credit this term. It is an easy way to contribute resources to our school especially if you enjoy spending time and money in sports stores like myself. Thanks to all of those who purchased at Rebel over the break. We have a very useful amount for equipment. 

Important Sporting Dates Term 3 & Term 4, 2023

10 – 11 October – Qld State Schools Athletics

20 October – District Triathlon Trials (11-19 Yrs) Paper Nomination

28 – 29 October – Regional Triathlon Trials (11 – 19 Yrs)

27 November – Yeronga State School Senior Swimming Carnival (Yrs 3 – 6)

28 November – Yeronga State School Junior Swimming Carnival (Yrs 1 & 2)

Welcome back to term 4. I hope that you and your family had a refreshing holiday and are ready to finish the year strong. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance in making it through the rest of the year. I’m here to help and to encourage you, particularly when life is tough.

Shout out for Donations

As you clear out school supplies and uniforms towards the end of this term, consider what you might be able to donate. There are a number of opportunities where you can be generous and give back to support families in our very own school community:

Uniforms & Shoes – spare uniforms are required for children who have accidents while at school, or for those who can’t afford to purchase. Black school shoes are very much in demand and all sizes would be much appreciated.

Exercise books and stationery – regularly accessed throughout the year for those who don’t have the required classroom consumables.

Gift hampers – there are many that need a bit of cheer and help towards Christmas or just to restock their pantries. Baskets to collect donations will be available in the office foyer until Friday 25 November. Goods should be non-perishable special foods items (not your usual pantry items), gifts (books, small toys, games, etc) and decorative items (serviettes, bon-bons, decorations, etc.). Why not make a purchase each week for the next five weeks? 

Blessings, Chappy Jenny

Email – jennifer.bennett@suchaplaincy.org.au

Facebook and Instagram – Community_Chaplain

Tuck shop volunteers needed - just two hours of your day, week, year! 9-11am, Thursdays or Fridays are the busy days!  

There’s nothing worse than hungry kids! We are really desperate for help to fill those empty tums. Regular volunteers are amazing but we know that for some people, you get a free morning once in a blue moon so we love our one-off volunteers as well. If everyone helped just one morning a year we could keep the hungry kids at bay and our tuck shop convener would be one very happy lady. So, pick a date, email tuckshop@yerongasspandc.org.au and have some fun with fellow parents over a sarnie or 10! 

Bush Dance Wrap up 

Thank you to everyone who came to the Bush Dance! From the smiles on all the faces and moves on the dancefloor I think it is safe to say that it was one hell of a night! Thank you to all of the volunteers who worked tirelessly to pull it off. Here’s looking at you: Dave Shepperd, Justin Sheargold and Anna C, Kerri and Rich, Gil Amor and Glenn, Michael Pearce, Tom Whiting, Katrina Kretschmer, Anthea, Chris Day, Gulnara, Michelle on promotions, Sebastian Rimpau, Heidi Von Kistowski, Perry Trattos, Lauren McHutchison. Bill and Shane, Carissa and Travis Klein, Liby Elcome, Fraser, Tom Flynn’s dad and our photographer Travis Klein. So grateful for our amazing community!

World Teachers Day 

We will celebrate our amazing teachers on Friday 27^th October providing them with delicious morning tea and lunch delectables! If you can contribute a plate of goodies please sign up here: https://signup.com/go/kJrTMih 

Thank you as always for your support! 

 P&C Meeting  

The next P and C Meeting is Tuesday 17^th October 7pm in the library. We would love to see you there!  

 Uniform Shop  

The uniform is always grateful for any 2^nd hand uniform donations but at present we are requesting any smaller sized items in preparation of the Prep fittings that will take place during the month of November. So, if you are doing a SPRING CLEAN then we would love to accept any UNDAMAGED, UNSOILED and GOOD QUALITY uniforms that you don’t need anymore. Thank you for helping us to recycle and repurpose clothing items which not only helps the environment by reducing landfill but also helps out any families in need. 

YERONGA STATE HIGH SCHOOL ENROLMENT INTERVIEWS

Please click HERE to fill out a registration form if you'd like to attend one of our Enrolment Interview Sessions. For enrolment interviews, please bring:

• Your child that is being enrolled
• Birth certificate/passport/travel documents
• Most recent report card
• Enrolment application documents

Alternatively, you may also email our Enrolment Officer at enrolments@yerongashs.eq.edu.au to make an appointment for an enrolment interview session. 

For out of catchment enrolments, please click HERE for more information. 

YERONGA STATE HIGH SCHOOL – ACADEMY PROGRAMS

APPLY NOW for 2025! Please contact our Enrolments Officer at enrolments@yerongashs.eq.edu.au to submit an application.

To find out more about our Specialist programs, please visit our website -  https://yerongashs.eq.edu.au/curriculum/specialist-programs

BECOME A HOMESTAY PROVIDER

More International students are coming to Yeronga State High School! Become a Homestay host to an international student and be reimbursed $328* per week. You’ll need to provide three meals per day, a bedroom and study space, a secure, comfortable environment to live in and the ability for your student to practise their English language skills through daily life in a home setting.

For more information, please contact out International Student Homestay Coordinator Aki Blakley at ablak120@eq.edu.au

Thank you.